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I’m vain about my high pain tolerance, but when the doctor injected the underside of my foot, I swore so loudly and lengthily it felt like a release from all the weeks of pent-up emotion.

For his part, Bach was lengthily effusive, offering several variations on: “Today we are witnessing history.”

Indeed, a bad middle: too many drugs, too much cruising, a psychiatric hospitalization, and a lengthily covered-up affliction with AIDS.

As students trickle in, a security guard frisks them lengthily at the gate of a newly-constructed entrance tunnel shielded by concrete bollards topped with barbed wire.

Berg’s religious background — his grandfather was an esteemed rabbi — is broached but not lengthily explored.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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